[mnehring]

Why not, at least by the same logic that some would celebrate Lee's birthday. After all, Stalin helped us defeat the Nazis. How about Rommel, sure he fought for the Nazis, but his writing showed he hated Nazism and Hitler. Why not celebrate his birthday too? Hell, he was even in a plot to try to kill Hitler.

Sure, Lee may have been a moral man against slavery, but he fought on the side that supported it. One can have all the beliefs they wish, but if they don't take a stand on principal their good moral don't count for much.

The fact is that he was a general of a defeated nation.

[skutter]

"My goal is to save the union. If I can do it without freeing the slaves, I will. If I must free every slave to do it, I will." - Abraham Lincoln

"If this war was about slavery I would fight for the South." - Ulysses S. Grant

This war was not about slavery, even though your communist schools taught you so.

[LTCJ]

Sure, Lee Bush may have been a moral man against slavery abortion, but he fought on the side that supported it. One can have all the beliefs they wish, but if they don't take a stand on principal their good moral don't count for much.

Welcome to the continuum of history. Now, you were saying?

[DixieOklahoma]

What about maryland and deleware, I am sure it is difficult for your pea-brain to comprehend, but those were union states that allowed slavery.

Must mean that they were likewise fighting for slavery.

okay now don't get a headache, but here's another one:

During the revolutionary war, EVERY SINGLE US STATE allowed slavery. Brittian did not, infact brittian even offered FREEDOM to ANY slave that would rise up and support the crown.

Therefore by your pea-brained logic, during the revolutionary war, we, the united states were fighting to preserve slavery and every single founder was a racist.